<p>If you chance me I'll chance you back!</p>
<p>Gender: Female
Location: NJ
Ethnicity: Filipino
- School sends many graduates to top schools; consistently ranked in the top 50</p>
<p>Weighted GPA: 4.7397
Unweighted GPA: 3.6008</p>
<p>I think the worst hit was opting to be a year ahead in the science curriculum at my school (took Biology as a freshman); I didn't have the math to keep up with courses such as Physics.</p>
<p>SATs: 2060 (CR: 690, M: 620, W: 750, 11 on the essay)
ACTs: 29
Will take SAT II's in December (Latin, Literature, Math I or II --> high 700's)</p>
<p>AP Exams:
AP US History - 4
AP English Language & Composition - 5</p>
<p>Senior Schedule:
AP English Lit
AP US Gov
AP Latin
Calculus 1
Sociology/Psychology
Music Theory 1</p>
<ul>
<li>Took a 200 level poetry course as a junior at a college, finished with an A</li>
</ul>
<p>Honors and Awards:</p>
<p>Freshman Year:
- National Latin Exam (Latin 1): Magna Cum Laude</p>
<p>Sophomore Year:
- Most Valuable Member Award: Latin Club
- New Jersey Junior Classical League: 1st Place Regional Certamen
- New Jersey Junior Classical League: 2nd Place State Certamen
- New Jersey Junior Classical League: 2nd Place State Vocabulary</p>
<p>Junior Year:
- Montclair State University Classics Day: 3rd Place Regional Certamen
- National Latin Exam (Latin III): Magna Cum Laude
- National Honor Society
- National Latin Honor Society
- Social Studies Honor Society</p>
<p>School Co-Curricular Activities:</p>
<ul>
<li>Literary Magazine (9, 10, 11, 12)</li>
<li>Latin Club (9, 10, 11, 12)</li>
<li>Key Club (9, 10, 11, 12)</li>
<li>Knowledge Masters (11, 12)</li>
<li>New Jersey Junior Classical League (10, 11, 12)</li>
<li>Future Teachers of America (11, 12)</li>
</ul>
<p>Leadership Roles:</p>
<p>Junior Year:</p>
<ul>
<li>Magazine Director of the Literary Magazine</li>
<li>Historian of the Latin Club</li>
<li>Scholarship Chair of the National Latin Honor Society</li>
<li>Student Council Representative</li>
</ul>
<p>Senior Year:
- Editor-in-Chief of the Literary Magazine
- Consul (President) of the Latin Club
- State Historian of the New Jersey Junior Classical League
- Scholarship Chair of the National Latin Honor Society
- Student Council Representative</p>
<p>Community Service:</p>
<ul>
<li>Emergency Room volunteer at a respected research hospital</li>
<li>Interned during the summer at the George Street Playhouse (taught ballet and improv)</li>
<li>Usher/greeter at the State Theatre</li>
<li>Performed dances in cultural shows</li>
<li>Key Club</li>
</ul>
<p>Other:
- Ballet dancer since the age of 3; danced on a competition team for first two years of high school, continued recreational dance until the present (ballet, tap, lyrical, and jazz)
- Tutor at Kumon North America (paid job)
- Published in Teen Ink
- Published in anthology from The America Library of Poetry
- Published in NJJCL newsletters and school newspapers
- Nominated for Homecoming Queen
- Played the piano since the age of 6</p>
<p>I will major in either Classics, Comparative Literature, or English.
Reccomendations should be great.</p>
<p>Other schools I'm applying to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bryn Mawr</li>
<li>Colgate</li>
<li>Barnard</li>
<li>Fordham</li>
<li>Penn State (University Park)</li>
<li>Rutgers (New Brunswick)</li>
<li>Brandeis</li>
<li>Haverford</li>
<li>Vassar</li>
<li>TCNJ</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks!</p>